This article comes from Atlas Obscura’s Places newsletter. Subscribe or manage your subscription here. In Shiodome, Tokyo, a hulking, storybook contraption clings to the side of the Nittele Tower at Nippon Television’s headquarters: the Giant Ghibli Clock. Designed by legendary animator Hayao Miyazaki, it’s less a timepiece than a mini mechanical theater—gears, doors, figures, and little surprises that feel like they’ve wandered out of a fantastical workshop and onto a city skyscraper. No need...